COUNSEL SEPTEMBER 9‚ 2013 CONDUCT RELATED TO GENERAL CAMPAIGN ELECTIONS As in past years‚ this office is providing this memorandum as a guide to District employees regarding their conduct in political campaigns for the upcoming general election‚ including the DPS Board of Education election‚ on November 5‚ 2013. Colorado’s Fair Campaign Practices Act prohibits certain school district and district employee involvement with candidates and ballot issue campaigns. As a means of ensuring compliance
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The topic I selected is on why American women vote in presidential elections. I would like to address the question as to why there is a gender gap between men and women voters? And which gender has a higher voter turnout? The gender gap has been an issue since the 1980’s‚ perhaps it just the sign of the times or the fact that women are just more concern with social issues or just more willing to vote. I choose this particular topic because I’m an American citizen that feels it is important that we
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brainwashing. The concept of brainwashing threatened the idea that each individual American has agency and is making decisions under his own control. At its root‚ brainwashing took away a right that Americans prided themselves on‚ liberty. The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller released during the height of the Cold War. The film follows Korean War veteran who returns to the United
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Rights Movement and the changes in youth culture‚ Americans were looking for a new leader. The election of 1960 was a gateway to change in America. With a close popular vote Electoral College vote‚ the election brought in a new president with new ideas and beliefs. This change helped America during the Cold War and the Space Race‚ making America become one of the most dominate countries in the world. The 1960’s was a new decade of a new generation. The second world war had ended over a decade before and
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Having a president with no party affiliation‚ would mean candidates would have a difficult time raising money for their campaigns. Money is important for elections to help influence and mobilize voters (Kernell‚ et al.). Campaigning for presidency is a money contest between each candidate and party. For example‚ the last election Trump was able to spend so much of his personal money to get what he wanted and did not have to rely as much on donors. Modern campaigns are based on technology such as
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Recounting the 2000 Presidential Election The movie Recount tells the story of the ballot controversy in Florida during the 2000 presidential election of George W. Bush vs. Al Gore. Recount was written by Danny Strong‚ directed by Jay Roach‚ and produced by Kevin Spacey. It is told from the from the perspective of Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain‚ one of Vice President Gore ’s lawyers. The film begins on November 7‚ 2000‚ the night of the presidential election. Florida is called for Governor Bush by
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If I live in a battleground state during a presidential election and the major parties are neck and neck with each other‚ I would probably not consider voting for the third-party candidate. As Ryan Lizza pointed out‚ it takes a lot for a third-party candidate to even make it to the presidential election. Some of the obstacles they must endure are getting on the ballot in the first place with such harsh burdens placed on them by the other two major parties who do not want third-parties there‚ as well
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` 2012 Election The person that I think that should be the next president of the United States is Mitt Romney. I think he should be president because I think his five point plan would work to get us out of the recession that were in right now. Obama is just going to get us more and deeper into the recession. That is who I think should be the new president. Romney’s five point plan consist of make 12 million brand new jobs so that the people that are either unemployed or on welfare
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of the political are used more often in the speech of Barack Obama‚ and what does it mean. The enabling objectives to get the research goal are the following: 1) To read and analyze the secondary sources on the research topic 2) To collect the empirical data 3) To implement the necessary research method 4) To create a table‚ showing the most frequent terms. The hypothesis is that convinced political terms are used more often in the speech of Barack Obama than other terms. The research
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in the presidential election‚ we see many common concerns of people rising to the surface‚ jobs‚ women’s rights‚ education‚ taxes and healthcare. With voting trends beginning change and a new generation of voters taking charge‚ there seems to be a bit more depth than in the previous years. New concerns
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